Charles Hare Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill, PC QC, was an Irish politician and barrister.
Charles Hemphill
"The Irish Serjeant" Caricature of Charles Hare Hemphill by "Spy" (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, August 1904
Peter O'Brien, 1st Baron O'Brien, PC, QC, known as Sir Peter O'Brien, Bt, between 1891 and 1900, was an Irish lawyer and judge. He served as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland between 1889 and 1913. In his
Charles Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill
…consideration. As Solicitor-General, he is remembered mainly for the somewhat malicious "compliments" paid to him by the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Sir Peter O'Brien, in the celebrated 1894 case of R. (Bridgeman) v. Drury. Hemphill, who appeared for Dublin Corporation, had argued, apparently with a good deal of…
Lord O'Brien.